Reconstruction of copper metallurgy techniques.		 The excavations at the Terrina IV site (Aleria) conducted by G. Camps from 1975 to 1981 considerably revitalized our knowledge of the end of the Neolithic period in Corsica. For the first time, a significant amount of pottery, lithic, and faunal remains associated along with the vestiges of a metallurgical production were discovered in homogeneous levels, dated back to the early IIIrd millennium or the very end of the IVth millennium. The Chalcolithic (Copper) Age of Corsica was at last recognized.
The remains uncovered at Terrina witness to a renewal of the productions between the IVth and IIIrd millennia. One should not necessarily conclude to a drastic transformation of the life ways of the insular populations. The houses' architecture (stone foundations and cob walls) remains the same. The subsistence modes, largely based on sheep farming, and the global managing of resources do not either seem to change between the IVth and IIIrd millennia.

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